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Next Monday will be the Royal Mail’s busiest day of the year. “The British do Christmas like clockwork,” says a cheery spokesman. “We can always predict it. There’ll be a rush on stamps next Monday and the volume of mail will go up by about 50 per cent.”

Hard facts, please

The usual 81 million items of post handled each day will increase to 123 million, including a high proportion of the 750,000 letters addressed to Santa Claus.